I would be curious to know how these do with a big trailer.  Not necessarily heavy, but a wind brake.  I don’t tow but a few time a year, but once a year I do tow a 8.5' x 20' enclosed V front trailer and my parents 5.7 Ram doesn’t really care for it.  It will do it, but the gas mileage is horrendous and it winds…

You forgot where you have to have an attractive EMT/friend responding to your situation.

Ah, that would make sense.  “Ask” for the key only when the handle is used vs just always looking for it.

I guess that’s fair (well not really, but you know what I mean).  The more I see the OEM side of things, the more I understand some of those decisions and the way some things happen in the field.  I’m in a much smaller OEM market for my job, so nickels and dimes aren’t as big a deal, but when you’re selling 100s of…

Hmm, I may have to try jiggling the pedal next time it won’t come on.  Should be easy enough to look for I’d hope.

Option 4: Mod it into something new and different.  I turned my original Xbox into a streaming machine with a soft mod.  Admittedly this isn’t as easy with some consoles, but the older they get usually the better chance you have at being able to get inside them.

Interesting, I’ll have to check it out.  It had crossed my mind that the pedal might be sticky or something and causing it to hang, but I would have thought they would use the same switch as the one for the lights.  Are they two separate switches?  Otherwise I would think the lights would stick on as well.

I’m surprised that’s not more common.  My parents had a 99 Vette that had a simple little toggle on the fob that turned it from active to passive.  When the keys were on the other side of the garage door it would constantly lock and unlock, so it was kept on active unlocking most of the time.

Just thought of another fun one, though probably my own doing. Put a Megasquirt system on the 5.7 Hemi in my 67 Dart and have been trying to get the speedometer working off the Raspberry Pi I put in it (electronic speed sensor on the transmission, trying to drive a motor/servo to run the factory mechanical…

Two electrical gremlins come to mind. On the 2000 XKR I had, the wipers sometime just decided they didn’t want to work. Never could figure it out. Everything tested fine and they would work just fine sometimes. The other one is more recent on my wife’s 2009 Malibu. The cruise control has decided it doesn’t feel like…

Neither is a base model Vette, but I’m talking about way more than just 0-60.  I’m talking full track capability.  Also, put good tires on one and I bet you could get closer.  I think stock they were supposed to be around 3.5 seconds.  You don’t have to shift to get to 60, so with a good launch you might do okay.

So basically a crate engine with a computer, makes sense.

When it comes to performance, it’s really more about how the car delivers it vs what the actual number is to me.  Both cars can have 250 hp, but if one has a dyno chart that looks like a cliffside I don’t think it’s going to be that pleasant for day to day stuff.  Also, torque really means a lot, though gearing can…

I’ve never seen a picture like that on any gas pump I’ve used.  I think I only ever see text on mine.

That may or may not be true. Not sure how EV drivetrains tend to run, but often times modern powertrains require those systems because they use data from them. For instance, just putting a modern engine and transmission in an older car is a major pain if you want to use the factory ECM because it’s expecting wheel…

Yeah, that had crossed my mind as well.  I know this one will likely have a different feel just due to the layout, though I’m still not sure that would help the controls that much.  We’ll see.  I’m not really interested in them to begin with, but I’d never turn down a chance to drive one and see for myself.

My issue with Vettes has always been how they feel to drive.  The performance is there, but it just doesn’t feel connected to me.  Granted I come from daily driving an 04 Viper, but my dad had a C7 for a while and I drove it a few times.  While it was plenty fast and capable, the controls just all felt one step…

Depends what generation you want.  You can get a nice used gen 3 in the 30's, which is just as much power as the new Vette and probably just as formidable in the right hands.  I know I have chased down gen 5s in my car on track days, but I drive it like I stole it on the track while others can be a little more…

They sort of do if you want to get creative.  I daily drove my 04 until I got married and my wife’s back wouldn’t tolerate it on a daily basis.  I looked into snow tires for the fun of it just to see if it was possible and I found one way to do it.  The widest snow tires I found were something like 285 section width…

Everyone says that, but the base car was under $100k, even without the discount. The “Launch Edition” was well over $100k, closer to $120k, but that was a special edition with paint and the nice interior.  The base SRT was more like $85-90k.  Not that much under $100k, I’ll admit, but it was under.